"Microsoft's Build developers conference in San Francisco has mainly focused on Windows 8.1 so far, but the company spent a few minutes talking about the future Xbox One development platform on Thursday. Steve Guggenheimer, vice president of Microsoft's Developer & Platform Evangelism group, provided big hints at how developers can target the Xbox One in future." Many Windows 8 Metro applications would work relatively well with Kinect gestures and such - so this makes sense to me. Still don't want a 'media entertainment experience device' though; I want a game console.

On the contrary. You are right in saying that Nintendo are losing gamers, but Nintendo is also winning on a different level: making gamers out of people who weren't gamers. Wii is, or at least was, sweeping out the casual, family orientated, gaming market, which is huge.

I agree. Nintendo has a great strategy, but maybe a not so great execution.

However this is the exact approach Microsoft is taking with the Xbox One, and the opposite of what Sony is doing.

Microsoft acknowledges that the console market is a low growth market, so they're expanding the capabilities of the Xbox in order to accommodate new markets -- and coincidentally push them further into the living room.